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The term “el pueblo” is used throughout Latin America, referring alternately to small towns, to community, or to “the people” as a political entity. In this vivid anthropological and historical anal……続きを見る

Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentie……続きを見る

The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers’ organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements, Rosemary Hennessy was stru……続きを見る

In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor Houseーthe centerpiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a for……続きを見る

Since 1989 an indigenous political movementーthe Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI)ーhas governed the southern Mexican city of Juchitán. In Decentering the Regime, J……続きを見る

In Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico Jennie Purnell reconsiders peasant partisanship in the cristiada of 1926–29, one episode in the broader Mexican Revolution and the la……続きを見る

Bringing together historically and ethnographically grounded studies of the social and political life of Brazil and Mexico, this collection of essays revitalizes resistance as an area of study. Resi……続きを見る

The Worm in the Wheat is a compelling tale of political intrigue, violence, shifting allegiances, extreme poverty, and the recalcitrance of one woman. Above all, it is a multileveled interpretation ……続きを見る

Prior to the Spanish conquest, the Nahua indigenous peoples of central Mexico did not have a notion of “sex” or “sexuality” equivalent to the sexual categories developed by colonial society or those……続きを見る

A public art movement initiated by the postrevolutionary state, Mexican muralism has long been admired for its depictions of popular struggle and social justice. Mary K. Coffey revises traditional a……続きを見る

Striking, inexplicable stories circulate among the people of Nuevo León in northern Mexico. Stories of conversos (converted Jews) who fled the Inquisition in Spain and became fabulously wealthy in M……続きを見る

Wandering Peoples is a chronicle of cultural resiliency, colonial relations, and trespassed frontiers in the borderlands of a changing Spanish empire. Focusing on the native subjects of Sonora in No……続きを見る

In 1994 the Zapatista rebellion brought international attention to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Neil Harvey combines ten years of field work in Chiapas with extensive historical and politi……続きを見る

Did the Mexican Revolution do away with the ruling class of the old regime? Did a new ruling class rise to take the old one's placeーand if so, what differences resulted? In this compelling study, t……続きを見る

The languages of two hemispheres collided when Spain conquered Mexico, and as a result, a dynamic expression of visual and dramatic arts emerged. Mural painting and missionary theater quickly became……続きを見る

Létude des sociétés précolombiennes ne se limite pas aux aspects les plus visibles, comme les développements techniques, les événements politiques et militaires ou les exploits économiques. Elle eng……続きを見る

The Human Tradition in Mexico is a book of real-life stories of Mexicans throughout more than 250 years of the country's history. This text does not focus on presidents, generals, and other well-kno……続きを見る

This book reinvigorates the debate on the Mexican Revolution, exploring what this pivotal event meant to women. The contributors offer a fresh look at women's participation in their homes and workpl……続きを見る

This text covers over 2,000 years, tracing the roots of the contemporary Mexican-American. It utilizes the fields of history, political science, cultural anthropology, folklore, literature, sociolin……続きを見る

The process of shaping and asserting cultural identity in viceregal Spanish America occurred as much through the medium of pictures as through the medium of writing. Focused on writing that referenc……続きを見る

Winner of the 2014 Latina/o Studies Section - LASA Outstanding Book Award In Borderlands Saints, Desirée A. Martín examines the rise and fall of popular saints and saint-like figures in the borderla……続きを見る

When the Spanish arrived in Yucatán in 1526, they found an established political system based on lordship, a system the Spanish initially integrated into their colonial rule, but ultimately dismantl……続きを見る

Our hero, lets call him Freddy for the sake of confusion, treks to the land of his forebears ~ that unique land of many names, but to the confused and disillusioned, we know it as Mexico. Why is he ……続きを見る

In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-González examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. healt……続きを見る

Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a center of Afromexican culture by Mexican cultural authoriti……続きを見る

The religion questionーthe place of the Church in a Catholic country after an anticlerical revolutionーprofoundly shaped the process of state formation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in……続きを見る

Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico. With many pieces translated from Spanish for the first time, the anth……続きを見る

Art and Social Movements offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements from the late 1960s through the early 1990s: the 1968 student movement an……続きを見る

The Plan of San Diego, a rebellion proposed in 1915 to overthrow the U.S. government in the Southwest and establish a Hispanic republic in its stead, remains one of the most tantalizing documents of……続きを見る

NOUVELLE EDITION DE 70 PAGES On trouve de nombreux ouvrages sur le chamanisme, mais combien s'intéressent au VRAI chamanisme des anciennes civilisations du Mexique ou du Pérou? C'est le but de cette……続きを見る